Mischief in senior secondary school.

Chapter Eleven: The Last resort

"Wait, what?" Was all Rebecca could  manage to say.

"I'm not joking Rebecca. You have until this afternoon to prepare" Mr Abioye her English teacher said

"Okay sir" she said.

"If you miss it or I catch you playing with those N.F.As (used to refer to people with no future ambition) who are always late to the co-curricullar activities, you will wash the girls toilet for a week" Mr Abioye said.

"Okay sir"

Today, Rebecca had been picked by a teacher to teacher to represent her class in the impromptu inter-class debate this afternoon. She was to support this motion:

Public schools are better than private schools.

Rebecca walked back to the class. She was the chief speaker and unfortunately the second speaker representing their class was Mabel. She was probably already telling everyone about it. Mabel could do whatever she wanted, Rebecca didn't really care at this point.
     There was something else bothering her. This person was much more important than Mabel. It was Tom. After listening to the conversation he had had with Daniel yesterday,. Rebecca wanted to know what they had been talking about. Unfortunately she couldn't ask him because they still weren't talking to each other. Which explains her shock when she opened her locker and found a note saying,

We need to talk. Meet me in the library about thirty minutes before the debate starts.
-Tom.

"Gabriella" She said. Gabriella who was sitting behind her and reading a particular book in the dork diary series looked up at her

"Yes, you can see that I'm..."

"Read this" Rebecca said giving her the note. Gabriella read it and looked back at Rebecca.

"Are you sure that he's the one that wrote it?" She asked.

"It's not his handwriting. Maybe he asked someone to help him write it" Rebecca said.

"You should go and at least see what's going on" Gabriella advised.

"Okay" Rebecca said. She was elated. She has really missed hanging out with Tom all the time. It has been fun. Maybe this could work out after all.

***

Tom waited patiently for Rebecca. He didn't mind having to wait. If he didn't get to the school hall on time the worse he would get was a scolding. The teachers didn't pay too much attention to students who missed the co-curricular activities because there was no time to. Prefects caught and punished them instead. He knew that he was safe in the library. But he was worried about Rebecca. Mabel has gone around telling everyone that she and Rebecca would be participating in the debate. For her own sake, she should hurry up.
     Finally, Rebecca arrived. She was panting. She had probably ran the whole way here. I couldn't wait to hear what she is to say.

"Hi Tom, you said you wanted to meet me here" she said

"What?" Was all he could manage as he looked around frantically for the librarian. Then I remembered that she had left a while ago with Betty saying that she would be back soon.

Betty, Sarah's best friend and member of the prank group.

"Get out now!" He said. She clearly didn't realize that this was a set up because she  glared at me.

"First you give me a note telling me to meet you there and now that I'm here you tell me to leave. What is wrong with you?"

There was no use explaning. I brought the letter that I had found under my locker out of my pocket and have it to her. She read it.